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The West Memphis Three are three freed men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment.
19 kwi 2024 · Nearly 30 years after three boys were found dead, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled new DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene can proceed, overturning a circuit court which had denied a...
26 kwi 2023 · What’s known is that three 8-year-old boys — Steve "Stevie" Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore — were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. were arrested and convicted for the crimes, despite a majority of the evidence being circumstantial.
24 cze 2022 · CNN — The story of the “West Memphis Three,” whose decades-long murder case was the source for a noted documentary trilogy, returned to court Thursday, with a judge denying one of the men...
7 cze 2023 · In 1993, Mr. Misskelley, Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Echols (16, 17, and 18, respectively, at the time) were arrested for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Although no physical evidence or motive tied them to the crime, the teens were all convicted.
11 lip 2021 · Evidence requested by attorneys for new DNA testing in one of the most high-profile, savage murder cases in Arkansas history has been lost or destroyed by fire, dashing hopes that the men...
5 maj 1993 · At 8:40 P.M. on May 5, 1993 the West Memphis Police Department received a call that a bleeding black man had entered the Bojangles restaurant (located near where the three bodies were eventually discovered) about thirty minutes earlier and gone into the women's rest room.
